NO. 2 SMITHSOXIAX EXPLURATIUXS, I918 IO7 



they will run out of persons, and so no more men will be available 

 for candidates for chiefships ; the law defining the position, the 

 powers, the disabilities, and the authority of the ( )nondag-a chief. 

 De'hadoda"ho' ; and of his co-tribal Royaner chiefs ; individually and 

 in their collective capacity of Federal Fire-Keepers ; the law of the 

 method, the limitations, and the effect of the action of these Fire- 

 Keepers in confirming', or in referring" back for cause for review, 

 to the Council of their peers, any of its acts, whether unanimous or 

 not ; the law limiting suffrage for the nomination of chiefs to the 

 mothers in the clans : and the law recognizing descent of blood and 

 fixing the status of persons in the female line ; the law of the 

 sacredness of the lodge and of private property ; the law of hos- 

 pitality, good neighborhood, and good fellowship ; the law of mur- 

 der, and of rape, and of highway robbery ; the law of the police, or 

 the regulation of the internal affairs of the league, symbolized by the 

 Long \\ ing of the Gull and the Staff' which were placed in the hands 

 of the great federal chief. De'hadoda"ho' : the law of the domestic 

 relations ; the law of hunting and fishing ; the law of planting and the 

 protection of the crops ; the law fixing daytime and the place for 

 holding the sessions of the Federal Council and for the demeanor 

 of the Royaner or federal chiefs at such sessions ; the law defining 

 the position, the powers, and the limitations of the Merit, or the 

 so-called IMne-Tree chiefs ; the law for the adjustment of homicide, 

 obviating the former Lex faliojiis; the law of homicide by a Royaner 

 or federal chief : and the law of the Cnion or Federation of Clans 

 and of Lands (or Peoples), with an extensive explanatory preface. 

 A numljer of other rituals and traditions of the Iroquois were 

 anal_\-ticall\ studied, and .Mr. Hewitt also collected a num])er of 

 -Museum sjjecimens, including a \ery fine wooden mask of a Disease 

 Cod. ]jainted red ; it is a work of art. Some of these are illustrated 

 in this paper. 



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I )r. John k. ."^^wanlon. L'tlinolngist, nt the- Hurcau ot AnuTican 

 ICthnolfjgy, was in the field trom the niiddk- (it A]iril id ibe cud of 

 May, i';iS. ( )n K-a\'ing W a>liinL;l(iii lie wcni ininu-(Halr]\ in ( liai"- 

 cnton, i.()ui>iana, wliere be >])eiil abnul Miie week aniph I \ iiig liis 

 grammatical ^kett'h of the ( bit im.icha laiiL;uaL:e a]i"iad\ prepared, 

 and clearing n]) some iloubtful points wbieli liad dexelopi'il ilnriiig 

 its composition. 



.\fter completing this work bi' procei'iKd in I 'hiladelpbia. .Mis- 

 sissippi, in order to .ascertain somcllnng n-^arding llie prt'^ent con- 



